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There are reports of some things, things which could be well described as "super apes", giant simian-faced critters, covered in thick ape-ish fur, 7 to 8 feet tall, massive bipedal super-gorilla type-things. Reports of bigfoot/sasquatch creatures seem to fall into this category. Bipedal and enormous, but essentially just a kind of great big "super-ape".
But then there are reports of other creatures, creatures which seem more like "wild men". Stories from the Old World, including stories from antiquity and folklore etc. Creatures which are sometimes depicted in heraldry and old woodcut illustrations, and carvings and things like that. Creatures which are approximately human in form, but at the same time are beastly and utterly savage in nature. Feral humans, humans somehow "gone wrong", humans that exist without the benefits of human "culture", in the very broad sense of the word. Beings with little or no language skills, no means of communicating or even developing complex information, basically humans existing at the level of a bunch of chimps, or a pack of wolves. Instinctive, animalistic creatures. Humans without "humanity", for lack of a better word.
There are rare reports of feral human children, reports which are profoundly disturbing, and terribly tragic.
But what if there were somewhere at some time an isolated population of such creatures, living far beyond the reach of civilization, such beings could well be the stuff of legend, and the stuff of nightmares.
There are reports of some things, things which could be well described as "super apes", giant simian-faced critters, covered in thick ape-ish fur, 7 to 8 feet tall, massive bipedal super-gorilla type-things. Reports of bigfoot/sasquatch creatures seem to fall into this category. Bipedal and enormous, but essentially just a kind of great big "super-ape".
But then there are reports of other creatures, creatures which seem more like "wild men". Stories from the Old World, including stories from antiquity and folklore etc. Creatures which are sometimes depicted in heraldry and old woodcut illustrations, and carvings and things like that. Creatures which are approximately human in form, but at the same time are beastly and utterly savage in nature. Feral humans, humans somehow "gone wrong", humans that exist without the benefits of human "culture", in the very broad sense of the word. Beings with little or no language skills, no means of communicating or even developing complex information, basically humans existing at the level of a bunch of chimps, or a pack of wolves. Instinctive, animalistic creatures. Humans without "humanity", for lack of a better word.
There are rare reports of feral human children, reports which are profoundly disturbing, and terribly tragic.
But what if there were somewhere at some time an isolated population of such creatures, living far beyond the reach of civilization, such beings could well be the stuff of legend, and the stuff of nightmares.